I started this book review programme in January 2000 to
mark the quarter millennium celebration of Bach’s death. The aim
was to furnish the present form of musicological resource (i.e. searchable
bibliographic database) with more detailed and substantial information
about the currently-available publications, so that the scholars and students
might be able to determine whether or not they would need for their own
studies. To this date, the number of on-line reviews stands at 35, with
five on the waiting list.

Unlike those reviews published in the traditional media
(e.g. academic journals and newspapers), my reviews feature not only my
independent, critical opinion of the publication itself, but also a host
of other information that is vital to prospective readers, such as the
list of Bach’s works discussed therein, the targeted readership, research
contributions, and how to purchase it (with active link to the publisher’s
homepage and email). They prove to be popular among the regular visitors
of the Bach Bibliography.

All my reviews can be accessed from the “On-line Book
Review” page, listed in the chronological order of review; there is also
an alphabetical index. In addition, they are integrated into the database,
so that you can call the review page from the search results produced from
both “Simple Search” and “Complex Search”.

For this on-going research project, I am seeking your
continuing support by sending in a review copy of the books, facsimiles
and editions of highly scholarly value that are on your current publication
list to the following address: